13. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting, and I prayed with head bowed on my breast.
14. I behaved as if grieving for my friend or my brother; I bowed down in sorrow, as one who bewails his mother.
15. But in my stumbling and limping they rejoiced and gathered together [against me]; the smiters (slanderers and revilers) gathered against me, and I knew them not; they ceased not to slander and revile me.
16. Like profane mockers at feasts [making sport for the price of a cake] they gnashed at me with their teeth.
17. Lord, how long will You look on [without action]? Rescue my life from their destructions, my dear and only life from the lions!
18. I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among a mighty throng.
19. Let not those who are wrongfully my foes rejoice over me; neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without cause. [John 15:24, 25.]
20. For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.
21. Yes, they open their mouths wide against me; they say, Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen it!
22. You have seen this, O Lord; keep not silence! O Lord, be not far from me!